The United States Premier Hockey League-Premier Division (USPHL-Premier) is an AmericanJuniorice hockey league. Founded in 2012, the USPHL has grown to 58 organizations from across the United States fielding teams in Premier, Elite, Mid-West, USP3HL, U18, U16 and U16 Development divisions. The Empire Division was re-named the USP3 division for the 2015–16 season.

USA Hockey classifies the Premier Division as a Tier III junior hockey league. U18, U16 and U16 Development divisions are Tier I youth hockey divisions. The division is sanctioned by USA Hockey.[1]

The CT Yankees announced on April 1, 2014 that the organization will be renamed the Connectcut Junior Rangers as part of a new relationship with the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League.

The Premier division will add the Rochester Jr. Americans and the Springfield Jr. Pics for the 2014-15 season.

In early March 2015 the Syracuse Stars organization acquired the rights to a Premier Division team from the Bay State Breakers.

The league announced May 7, 2015 that Okanagan Hockey Stars from Austria would join the league for the 2015-16 season playing a full schedule and particpating in all league events. The team will be based out of Foxboro Sports Center in Foxboro, Massachusetts.

The USPHL announced on December 18, 2014 the formation of a Mid-West Division to begin in the 2015-16 season by adding several teams from the Minnesota Junior Hockey League.[2] By the end of the season, the Mid-West Division would add all but one active MnJHL team causing the MnJHL to disband for the following season. On March 10, 2014, the USPHL also added the entire Midwest Junior Hockey League to its new Mid-West Division for the 2015-16 season.[3] USPHL Mid-West will mark the fourth Tier III division under the USPHL umbrella.

In March of 2016 the league announced that the Rochester Jr. Americans and the Portland Junior Pirates will not be a part of the Premier League for the 2016-17 season.

The league has been reported to be making the effort to have the status of the Premier division elevated to either Tier-I or Tier-II with USA Hockey over the next few seasons. This would put the league on level with the United States Hockey League (Tier-I) or North American Hockey League (Tier-II). A major sticking point with an elevation in status could be the arenas that the teams play in. USA Hockey has standards regarding capacity of arenas and facilities in those arenas at the higher Tier-I and Tier-II levels. Some of the teams may be forced to expand their current arenas or relocate to NCAA Division I or III arenas near them to meet these standards. A proposal was presented to USA Hockey by the USPHL at the early 2016 meeting to either waive or lower some of the standards for Tier-I and Tier-II but the measures were defeated.